Found 3820 Bitter Marriage: The Missing Gleam in Their Eyes Stories

Baner, a transgender high school senior, steps into the glamorous nightlife, where love, temptation, and betrayal mix. As a model, he meets Cavin, a rich businessman, accidentally, and it is a wild romance of power play, secrets, and passion. But here, Baner is caught between love, dignity, and the price of doing so. With an unexpected love triangle and brutal family expectations weighing on his shoulders, Baner has to make a choice—will he fight for bliss or give way to societal pressures?

He killed her mother.
He killed her grandfather.
He went free.
If there's one thing twenty-five-year-old Lauren Burns knows, it's that she hates Aaron Spencer's guts.
The man was lower than a worm in her eyes and she didn't want to change her mind about him. She wanted to keep on despising the man who took her mom away from her.
That was until she met him.
Twenty years after the murders, both Aaron and Lauren now adults in their own lives, she comes face to face with Aaron Spencer, forcing...

Violet, a rich blind girl, gets married to the man she falls in love with, everything changes when she finds out her husband was having an affair with his lover disguise as a maid in the house, using her disability to his advantage. Violet learns about her husband plans and flees back to her fathers house, but then Violet is put in a bigger situation that cost her everything. To get her revenge, Violet teams up with Luther her ex-bodyguard, they fake a relationship and make a come back into her ...

Rue thought her biggest challenge would be keeping a smile at her father's wedding anniversary, enduring her stepmother's cold stares and her stepsister Cassie's provocations. But when her most trusted friend Jessica sends out a distress call, everything changes.
It was a trap.
When Rue awakens, she finds herself betrayed by her closest friend, her reputation destroyed, and even her father forced to disown her. In desperation, she's rescued by the mysterious Kyle Dag—leader of the Shadow Wolf ...

Twenty-year-old rising TV reporter Alisha Murphy seems to have it all—beauty, brains, a perfect career, and an attractive boyfriend. But her latest assignment takes a dark turn when she investigates the chilling disappearances of eleven young women, all with the same initials: A.M.
As she follows the clues, she uncovers a terrifying pattern that leads back to one place—her boyfriend’s bar. What Alisha finds hidden beneath the floorboards is a nightmare beyond imagination. Now, she’s the final ...

“Can you kiss me?”
“No, you are a married woman and you deserve my respect if not for anything then for that tag,”
“You also see me as dirty, you should be man enough to let me know,” she cried.
“God please, it’s a harmless kiss,” he thought to himself and decided to kiss her.
Being the First Lady should mean being happy and having everything at your beck and call but to Alma, it was far from that. She was stuck in a marriage that to the public looked like the perfect marriage but to h...

During a trip to Greece, in the ancient beach of Mykonos, Franco's life changes forever. Franco is deeply hurt because his ex-girlfriend Beatriz has broken up with him and has committed herself to a new man, his best friend, just two weeks after ending things with him. Desiring to forget his painful past, Franco travels to Greece and there he meets Mary. Both share a love for ancient sites; she is a beautiful journalist who is studying the yopa practices in Mykonos beach for an holistic report. ...

The Daemon's Eyes, lips and touch. Three supernatural parts passed down to every first born since the time of creation.
But peace is threatened when the Daemons make their move to rage war on the heavens by acquiring the three parts from the humans.
Sabrina a human girl blessed with eyes that see the supernatural, breaks one of the many rules her ancestors and speaks with one of the spirits, Logan. What drama and danger lies ahead this strange duo?
Richard Von Peep on the other hand grasps ...

Bumping into her ex-boyfriend in the city she fled five years before, model Gwen realizes that she can no longer run from her past. Admitting to billionaire CEO Finn Lane that the child with her is his son, Gwen will do whatever she can to protect her child…and her heart. As Finn fights to discover why Gwen left, breaking his heart, the billionaire will realize that real dangers seek to destroy their love story once again.
“‘Gwen, please, listen to me. She’s not my fiancée, alright? I mean… It...

Forbidden attraction.
Uncontrollable desire.
Sinful secrets.
The new Father William arrives at the nuns' school, a mysterious, silent and observant man. For Celeste, who is an aspiring nun, she is intrigued and attracted without being able to avoid it. Everything seems to get even more complicated when she discovers that her father has improper things that could end her career. She wants to accuse him of her, but he decides to silence her... With a kiss that unleashes her passion.

Samuel Stone,the alpha of Moondor kingdom has to travel to another world to find his mate. He is accompanied by his friend, Payne, a Beta.
They go to the other world and finds his mate,then he discovers she is a human. A human! Sam was angry with the Moon goddess for pairing him with a human,a weakling but he had to accept her because of the prophesy. He also finds out Zoe has no memory of her childhood. He decides to find out more about Zoe.
Later,Zoe was kidnapped by Klaus,Sam's enemy and Alp...

She is the last in their breed of Golden Wolves; the most powerful werewolf with strong mental powers, but Daffodil never knew it.
Lexus is a Beta Warrior with a mission; to find the last golden she-wolf that the next in line Alpha dreamed of having as his wife to make him the most powerful Alpha in the Werewolves’ realm.
What happened if the last Golden She-wolf is the mate of the Beta Warrior?
And what is the truth, behind the Beta Warrior's identity?

"BREAKING NEWS: HOT BILLIONAIRE, TYLER SCHNEIDER’S FLASH MARRIAGE WITH A MYSTERIOUS WOMAN IN LAS VEGAS!
A failed proposal for him and a series of Mimosa for her led them to a wild lustful night in Sin City.
Tyler Schneider, a hot-headed billionaire, and Chloe Myers, an ambitious career woman, woke up naked and trapped in a piece of paper called ‘MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE’.
In just one night, Chloe Myers became Chloe Schneider.
“What’s there to lose? You get to be in bed with a hot rich guy like...

Ralph grabbed one of her thighs and hooked it over his arm as he leaned over her and re-entered her again. "Oh-J-Jesu-" she cried out before Ralph slapped his hand over her mouth. "Tsk-tsk," he hissed. "The gods aren't fucking you. The devil is.”
There was no time for her to reply, as Alexei forcefully seized the back of her head and yanked it backwards. "Look how helpless you are... you fucking love it, don't you, wife?" he growled. "Come on, любовь. Beg."
I loved them more tha...

Allie grows up to be the punching bag for her pack until the day her boyfriend finds his mate. She finds the courage to run. She finds safety for the first time when she is found by an Alpha and Luna who take her in as their adopted daughter. After she finds her mates, her old life seems determined to take her back. Will her mates be able to keep her safe or will her previous pack take back their possession? Will she ever find out why she was treated so poorly? What Allie finds is that there are...

Young billionaire Geoffrey Smith had it all—until the night his family was torn apart by betrayal and murder by none other than his favorite uncle, Danny Gayle.
Blinded and broken, he vanishes, only to return eight years later with a new identity–Carlton Jaz, an intellectual man driven by vengeance. But amid the web of deceit lies a love he had been waiting to embrace his whole life—with Tiana Banks, the girl who saved him with the M3 vaccine the night he was supposed to be killed by a dangerou...

"Gold in her eyes, fire in her soul".
Jean Taylor, billionaire extraordinaire, seems like a regular crazy-rich woman (if that can be considered regular) to everyone, except for one thing; nobody knows who she is or exactly where she comes from. She has made sure everything is well-hidden with good reason.
The knowledge of who she is and where she comes from will liquefy the human brain.
Who is she? Where is she from? And how on earth can she slice a man open with just one look?
Find out in ...

I stepped into the room and he smiled at me.
That was my first warning.
Rowan Vaughn hadn’t smiled at me like that in years. Not since the cheating. Not since the Cold War between us began.
"Hi," he said, like I was a stranger.
And just like that, I knew.
He didn’t remember.
Not the marriage. Not the fights. Not the night I begged him to sign the divorce papers.
But then she walked in, Gigi.
And he remembered her.
I stood there, invisible again, while he held her hand and called her nam...

The day before her wedding, she witnessed her boyfriend, whom she loved for nine years, having an affair with his big brother's fiancée. He was even plotting to marry his future sister-in-law as she's carrying his baby.
While this disgusting truth broke her heart, a reserved man stepped into her life. He offered a sophisticated solution.
"Marry me instead, so my shameless brother and fiancée will have to call you Sister-in-law for rest of their life. Agree?"
It didn't take long, she took his off...

WARNING!!! MATURE CONTENTS.
READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION.
" If you think you can pin someone else’s child on me ..." Drake smirked as he turns towards Sarah who was beginning to shed tears
" I didn't do this on my own Drake,I came here for the money." tears flowed down her eyes , there was no way Drake was accepting her child after the incident with his best friend last night and now he wouldn’t let her explain.
" I will wire the rest of your balance to your account in the morning, I am sorry...

In the glittering skyline of Chicago, where fortunes rise as fast as they fall, Laura Castillo has made a career out of heartbreak—literally. As a professional bride, she’s survived by marrying desperate men for money, selling illusions of love with a flawless smile and a perfectly tailored dress. But behind the practiced charm is a woman drowning in emotional debts, haunted by a dying father’s final wish and a parasitic mother’s relentless demands.
When Andy Hayes, billionaire heir to the Haye...

Sequel to Hunting Her Hunters. This is Osprey's journey to finding his mate. Follow his path that is full of twists and turns, misunderstandings, and a love so deep that it transcends the normal bounds of a mate bond from day 1.

Briana Smith's life takes a dramatic turn after a tragic accident.
With an abusive father and the weight of their mother's death on their shoulders, Bri and her brother Ethan Black struggle to survive.
But when their father meets a fatal end, they are thrown into a tumultuous journey they never expected.
Enter Mr. Black, a feared mafia leader, and his security guards who become their unlikely saviors.
Secrets unravel, revealing the truth about Briana and Ethan's past, and chaos ensues.
With...

Astrid is an orphaned, emergency room doctor who was raised by humans. After a long day, she is discovered by her three alpha-to-be mates who scented her while tracking a rogue that had been terrorizing their territory. Finding your mate is usually a happy moment, but it seems to start a spiral of troubles for Astrid and her mates. Astrid must learn pack ways, how to control her magic all while trying to save her mates' life. Will they be able to stop the impending deaths of those in their terri...

Amanda was just trying to escape her pack from a monster that wants to rip her apart and devour the pieces. But she might have just stumbled onto something worse.
Alpha Zale finds her on the edge of his property and if she wants sanctuary, there's only one thing she can do, submit.
But the demon she's found isn't just any Alpha. He's her mate, and he likes to share.
And will the one she's run from really let her get away that easily?
Or is Amanda about to be caught in a battle between devils...

They promised to protect me from their violent world… but who will protect my heart from them?
Every night, three mafia enforcers come into my bar. They’re too dangerous to get close to, yet impossible to ignore.
When the bar is held up, Rocello, a powerful and deadly man, saves me. No one’s ever protected me like that before.
Rocello’s fierce protection and his gentle side as a single father make me feel safe. Jumaine’s calm, precise nature melts when he’s with me, and Slade’s reckless passi...

Scarlett is an Omega who has managed to survive without attracting attention and reach the age of 22 still being a virgin, but it was by her own choice. She never found her fated mate, but she doesn't want to live with only the simplest things anymore, she wants to be free and not have to depend on anyone anymore, so she decides to sell her virginity at an Auction.
Klaus and Liam are Alphas from a successful pack, they've never met their fated mates and they didn't even want to go to the auctio...

A love found in the most unusual of places—between a mafia Don and his one-time therapist.
Emerald Maree Pearce is a 25 year old woman with the body of a siren but a painful past that still haunts her. Influenced by a situation in her past that had left her broken, she becomes a psychologist to help people avoid what she had become.
Jordan Calix Kale, a 34 year old man, is a thousand times more powerful than the average man. Achieving his goal of being the Don of the most indomitable ma...

This story follows the youngest daughter of Clara, Wyatt and Noah from The Gamma's Heart.
Her story starts off a little rough in the beginning because her husband isn't a really good man, you have heard of the Dale family from the first book but wasn't told much about them.
But you will know.more in this storyline with Brooklyn aka Brooke.
Will she beable to fight for her love or give up on it and make a new life for herself without Ryan after 6 years together?

Rhea is an orphan who spent her childhood in different foster families. When she was 13 years old, she was adopted by the Alpha Angus and brought to his pack. Little did Rhea know she would be living with her four stepbrothers who had bullied her since the first day she arrived and had become her biggest nightmare. When she turned 18, Rhea learned her adopted brothers were her mates. Not two, but four of them. Rhea didn’t want to accept them, but her brothers refused to let her go and told her t...

"Did you ever, even once, imagine yourself loving me?" Sarah posed a hopeful question to Philip.
“Don’t make me laugh, Sarah. Everything between us has been purely about pleasure and business.”
Sarah had harbored feelings for Philip ever since she first saw him in a sports magazine. When his fiancée abandoned him at the altar to elope with another man, Sarah selflessly offered herself as a replacement bride to spare his embarrassment.
After enduring three years of a loveless and toxi...

"Marry me."
What the hell?
"Put this on tomorrow," he expained, "You're going to tell the press that Bella cheated on me, and that's when we started dating. When Bella found out, she tried to break us up. When that didn't work, she blackmailed you into posting the photo. That way, it looks like I hate you- but we've already reconciled."
How did I get myself into this kind of mess?
Laura finds herself in a devastating dilemma when her mother is kidnapped. Her captors demand she post a photo o...

“Jaden Skye creates a set of characters that are very well developed, and makes you cheer for our heroine on every page. The environment and the overall description of scenes are superb, making you feel the suspense in the air the whole time.”--Books and Movie Reviews (Roberto Mattos) (re No Place to Die)NO PLACE FOR MARRIAGE is book #4 in a new romantic suspense series by #1 bestselling author Jaden Skye, which begins with Book #1, NO PLACE TO DIE, a free download!When Tyron Barr, a rich, old t...

DEATH BY MARRIAGE is Book #3 in the Bestselling CARIBBEAN MURDER series, following DEATH BY HONEYMOON (#1) and DEATH BY DIVORCE (#2). A well-known criminal lawyer is found dead in a back alley in St. Thomas, and Cindy and Mattheus are called in to investigate by the grieving widow. The local police have pinned her for the murder, and Cindy and Mattheus are her last hope in vindication. As Cindy and Mattheus dig deeper into the victim’s past, they learn that all was not as rosy as it seemed. They...

Destiny is not your ordinary girl.
Besides the fact that she straggles two world’s.
She is also the spirit the powers that be have been waiting for.
That’s right.
Destiny is a spirit. Not born on this plane of existence.
She hails from beyond the veil. Where a soul goes when the vessel can no longer hold it.
Spirits like Destiny are called shadow agents.
A shadow agent hunts down and returns the souls that flee back to the mortal side of the veil. Where these souls start to cause trouble.
T...

“I'll give you one billion dollars, sign the papers and get out!" I left my home in disgrace, unaware that I was already pregnant. Six years later, I gave birth to quintuplets and became the most famous fitness trainer in town. Returning to my pack for work, I unexpectedly ran into my ex. He looked at the smaller versions of himself by my side, and shouted in anger, "How many of my kids did you steal?!”

It was a big day for Callie. She looked forward to marrying her handsome groom. Unfortunately, he abandoned her at the altar. He never showed up throughout the wedding.
She was made a laughingstock in front of all the guests. In a fit of anger, she went and slept with a strange man on her wedding night.
It was supposed to be a one-night stand. To her dismay, the man refused to let her be. He pestered her like she had stolen his heart on that night.
Callie didn't know what to do. Should she give ...

My stepmother is extremely vicious. She actually drugged my drink and sent me to another man's bed. To make matters worse, the next morning, a group of reporters was waiting outside the door...

"You won't expect love from me and will please me whenever, wherever I want."
What will happen when Christian Elvis, a person with a golden heart tainted black marries Sophie Skye, a normal girl just to fulfill his lust?
But, between that show of seduction, there was something else- a promise- A promise he made to someone dear to him.
Yet sadly, he turned their marriage which can become salvation for them into nothing but a mere contract.
They were different, he knew she was his since t...

Consumed by the pain of a past relationship, Viktor decides to take revenge on his ex-girlfriend by using Eleonora as the centerpiece of his plan. When he asks her to marry him in a moment of pure provocation, he doesn't imagine that it will trigger an unexpected connection between them.
Eleonora, on the other hand, is a strong and determined woman, who realizes Viktor's game from the start, but also finds herself drawn to his complexity. While he tries to keep his distance because of his emoti...

Kadian Hayes was the only grandchild in the Hayes family. She was never welcomed or recognized as such until the death of her mother when she was nine years old. Her grandfather was a billionaire who ruled his family with an iron fist. He was a tyrant who always got what he wanted without exception. When Kadian was twenty one she came home for summer break from college and found out that her grandfather had arranged a marriage for her to his business partner's grandson Justin. Kadian refused to ...

Our marriage is falling apart and there's need to spice it up. An open marriage for 2 weeks can help right? But let's not forget the rules, after all not everything is open in an open marriage.
WARNING: THIS BOOK CONTAINS MATURE THEMES AND

We wouldn't sleep together.
We wouldn't do things married couples does.
We would just be normal friends.
When we reached the court room, where the marriage was to be held.
I then noticed the man I was about to get married to, it was someone that made me so shocked.
"Here is the copy of the contract, Sign it, and we would make it contractual."

I loved Jayden for three years until his beloved Sherry returned from abroad, and I realized I was just a substitute.
I broke up with him.
Jayden thought I was being unreasonable. He yelled impatiently:
'Gabriella, stop it. There's nothing between me and Sherry."
'I only treat her like a sister."
But at the banquet, he put his arm around her waist, acting intimately, ignoring me.
Until after I died, Jayden would kneel in front of my grave with red eyes, acting like a madman.

"Tell me how do you want me to make it up to you??" I asked, putting myself at risk by asking the big bad alpha wolf that question.
"I'm not simply interested in having sex with you," He smiled and came closer, running his finger up my neck, "I want to experience everything with you."
"How about not wearing any clothing whenever we are alone in this mansion?" I gasped in shock as he murmured into my face.
(Content/ Trig*er Warning: The following read consists of extreme profanity, violence, or g...

It's a 18+ story. Contains explicit sexual content.
Florina was living a perfect life with a perfect job and a lovely boyfriend but her once fairytale peaceful life turned upside down in just a single night because of something that she saw.
Now she was on the hit list of the Russian mafia and he wanted her dead at all costs. Florina ran for her life but destiny threw her in another frenzy when she stumbled upon Sebastian King, the American mafia boss and Vincenzo Romano, the Italian mafia bos...

"When he is at work, you will have us entertain you," Alpha Atticus whispered.
"You belong to me," Alpha Atticus mumbled, shoving his hand between my legs and in my underwear.
His fingers traveled to my pussy and grazed around for the entrance, but I was keeping my legs shut tightly. I was sitting between my two alpha mates, who were supposed to accept me and protect me, but they failed.
Now that I was married to a much older and more mature Royal Counselor, these two came back into my life ...

“All this time,” Adriano’s voice was low, shaking with rage, “all this time I kissed you, made love to you, put my life on the line for you…” His eyes burned into hers. “You were fucking my brothers behind my back?!”
“Adriano, please I can explain. It's not what you think.”
“NOT WHAT I THINK?!” he roared, stepping closer, fists trembling. “You told me you love me!”
“I do,” Diamond sobbed.
His voice broke. “Then why?”
—
They are the princes of Il Serpente Dorato, the most powerful Italian...

Dark #Trauma #Steamy #Violence #LoveTriangle #SlowBurn
Stella's world crumbles when her husband, Kellan Keller, tragically dies in a car crash, shattering their plans of starting a family. Left to pick up the pieces, Stella takes over Kellan's insurance company while keeping her own fashion business thriving.
Hoping to help her heal, Stella’s parents whisk her away to Alaska. There, she stumbles upon an eerie book about wolves, Lycans, and a woman who mysteriously disappeared in the Alaskan wil...

Erina's family sells her to a pack of wolves, she knows she's there for their pleasure to be used and then killed, at least that's their intention.
But what they don't know is that Erina isn't willing to accept that fate. She's determined to do whatever is needed to stay alive. The pack thinks they can just use her and throw her away, but when she's done with them they won't be able to survive without just another moment with her.
Because Erina doesn't want to be their broken doll, she just need...